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Network for Good Study of Disaster Giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm finally back home after an extended business trip that began with the Blogher 2006 conference. " I wonder what would happen if Grace's idea from Community Assistance Panel was a reality? What would be the result if we could mobilize the blogher network?

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Tips for Disaster Relief Bloggers

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The last BlogHer Conference session I went to yesterday, before leaving early to go to a wedding, was about using blogging for Community Assistance. Here are some of the tips they gave for other disaster relief bloggers: Tips from Grace 1. They also set up a wiki. Your blog needs to be a place to “help the helper.”

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Wendy Harman, Social Media Maven, How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

Wendy is a listener, innovator, online community member, information synthesizer, big picture thinker, and Director of Social Media for the American Red Cross. Red Crossers Jenny Brennan, Wendy Harman, and Seth Spiro checking Twitter and other social media in the Disaster Operations Center in Washington, DC Photo by American Red Cross.

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Dog Days of August: Slow Blogging, Dog Safety, and Other Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There's information about heat safety, pet first aid, and disaster planning. At Blogher Unconference, Leslie Madsen Brooks (who works with university faculty to help them make their instruction more thoughtful and who is also a dog lover ) put up a session called "Slow Blogging."

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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Using Social Networking Tools - Advice, Brief Case Study, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" What you are looking for how best to interact with the community as well as the techniques. I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. Because the international community and media have failed to respond to this environmental disaster, they are bringing the campaign to the Social Web.

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NPTechersphere is Talking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Kivi Leroux Miller who blogs at Nonprofit Communications gives us a summary of what nonprofit consultants are posting. Katrin Verclas, who was named Executive Director of N-TEN in June, has been on cross-country tour over the summer meeting with members of the N-TEN community at meet-ups.

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Angela Devlen: Emergency Management Professional and Blogger

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We are working with international partners to address the consequences of disasters and violence on women and their families at the grassroots level-an issue that is near and dear to my heart. I was also involved with the Search and Rescue Team and was a Red Cross Disaster Action Team member. I like to call it passion for life.

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